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L-R: David McGowan, immediate past president; TLT's Stephen McGowan; and David Morton, president Stephen McGowan, head of licensing (Scotland) at TLT, has been appointed as a charity trustee to the Scottish Licensed Trade Benevolent Society.

The Faculty of Advocates is looking forward to hosting an important event in the calendars of counsel and judges throughout the UK and Ireland.

Slaugher and May has become the top paying English firm for young lawyers as it increased its newly-qualified solicitors' (NQs) salaries by £5,000 – from the 2014 figure of £65,000 to £70,000. The increase is more than double the pay rise given to NQs last year, which saw salaries go from £63,

Evidence provided by a rape victim before she committed suicide has been accepted by a jury in her attacker's trial to convict him. In a legal first, the jury accepted Ceri Linden's evidence from “beyond the grave” to convict fake taxi driver Masood Mansouri, 33, of kidnapping and raping her.

The UK Supreme Court has ordered the UK government to deal with the country's air pollution problem and publish a report on it by the end of this year. Air pollution in the UK has contravened EU limits for years and has been linked to thousands of deaths.

GCHQ has been ordered by a court to destroy documents relating to communications between a Libyan dissident and his lawyers which they illegally intercepted. The Investigatory Powers Tribunal, chaired by High Court judge Mr Justice Burton, ruled that the UK intelligence agency breached Sami Al-Saadi

A parliamentary report scrutinising proposals to legalise assisted suicide has been published today by the health and sport committee. Deputy convener of the committee, Bob Doris MSP said: “First of all, the committee wants to acknowledge the positive intentions of Patrick Harvie MSP in bringing t

Today sees the publication of Standards of Service for Victims and Witnesses by a number of Scottish criminal justice organisations. The document explains what victims and witnesses can expect to happen at each stage of the criminal justice process, specific standards of service to expect, and inclu

The Faculty of Advocates has pointed to “the potential to enhance justice” if US-style damages based agreements (DBAs) are introduced in Scotland. However, it stressed the need for regulation of such agreements, and voiced concern at the Scottish government’s decision not to regulate claims ma

Mike Dailly Govan Law Centre's principal solicitor has called upon the European Banking Authority (EBA) to make greater use of its article 9 consumer protection mandate to help prevent misconduct in banking across the European Union (EU).

A call for views on legislation which will create a new criminal offence for adults who smoke in a motor vehicle in the presence of a child has been launched by Holyrood's health and sport committee. The Smoking Prohibition (Children in Motor Vehicles) (Scotland) Bill aims to protect children from s

Bill Drummond Brodies has been recognised as the leading law firm in Scotland at the Who’s Who Legal Awards 2015 in Washington DC.

The University of Edinburgh Law School has been ranked as one of the world’s top 30 in the 2015 QS World University Rankings. Edinburgh climbed five places in the law rankings, from 32 to 27, and is one of only six UK universities to make the top 30.

A football team which was disqualified from a tournament because it fielded a player who was serving a disciplinary suspension at the time has lost its appeal.

From left: Jaimie Wolbers, Kim Atkinson, Sean Callery, David Meighan (lying down), Sarah Jane Scott, Russell Whyte, Marina Sinclair-Chin, Georgie Millyard, Victoria Kimber, Matthew Jack, Katie Wood, Martin Wood.